a system where people who are not considered white are denied access to the same services as white people

refusing to use a service as a form of protest

Case studies: Bristol and Leicester

History

The Viking conquest

Case study: Viking York

The Norman Conquest

Jewish migration in medieval England

Merchants and craftspeople in medieval England

Migration in medieval England

England in the early modern period

Case study: Flemish and Walloon migrants in Sandwich and Canterbury

African migrants in the early British Empire

Jewish migrants in the early modern period

Case study: Huguenots

Palatine refugees in the early 1700s

Migration to early modern England

The Industrial Revolution and internal migration

European migration in the 18th and 19th centuries

The British Empire and migration to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries

Case study: Liverpool in the 19th century

Case study: Jewish migrants in the East End

Migration to 18th and 19th century Britain

The World Wars and colonial migrants

Post-war migration to Britain

The end of empire, the Commonwealth and changing patterns of migration

Race relations in 20th century Britain

The EU and changing patterns of migration

Refugees and asylum seekers in modern Britain

Migration to modern Britain

In this unit, pupils learn about either migrants in Britain or medicine in Britain over a period of roughly 1000 years. They examine one of these themes, analysing the impact it had in Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern Britain, with a particular focus on change and continuity.

Thematic studies

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Name this British port city: located in the west of England, strong links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, large community of Caribbean migrants post-war, birthplace of British Civil Rights Movement.

discriminating against black or Asian people

What did colour bars allow some people to get away with?

What word means to refuse to use a service as a form of protest?

60 000 Ugandan Asians were forced to leave Uganda in 1972.

27 000 Ugandan Asians had British passports and came to Britain.

27 000 Ugandan Asians arrived in Britain without permission.

10 500 Ugandan Asians had settled in Leicester by 1978.

80 000 Ugandan Asians were forced to leave Uganda in 1973.

Select the correct statistics about the migration of Ugandan Asians to Leicester in 1972.

Ugandan Asians faced a _________ reception from Leicester's council in 1972.

The expulsion of Ugandan Asians by Idi Amin

Labour first produced election materials in a variety of Indian languages

Put the following events in chronological order.

Which group of Jewish people did the British government initially offer protection to in the 1930s?

What is the name of the conflict between the USA and the USSR that lasted for over 40 years?

Invasion by the USSR in 1979 and then a succession of civil wars all increased refugee numbers from which country?

Penalties for people who brought illegal workers to the UK. 

Penalties for people who bought goods from illegal workers.

Penalties for people who hired illegal workers.

What did the Asylum and Immigration Act of 1996 introduce?

Refusing to let asylum seekers into Britain

What scheme for asylum seekers was abandoned in 2024 after a change in government in Britain?

This law differentiated between refugees and migrants.

This led to 10 000 Jewish children entering Britain.

This ended in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This set penalties for anyone employing illegal workers.

This gave refugees no choice on where they could settle in Britain.

Match the events to the correct descriptions.

Case studies: Bristol and Leicester

Lesson outcome

Content guidance